Attenuation of replication by a 29 nucleotide deletion in SARS-coronavirus acquired during the early stages of human-to-human transmission

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Muth, Doreen ^a,b,c   Corman, Victor Max ^a,b,c   Roth, Hanna ^c   Binger, Tabea ^c   Dijkman, Ronald ^d,e   Gottula, Lina Theresa ^a,b,c   Gloza Rausch, Florian ^f   Balboni, Andrea ^g   Battilani, Mara ^g   Rihtarič, Danijela ^h   Toplak, Ivan ^h   Ameneiros, Ramón Seage ^i,j   Pfeifer, Alexander ^c   Thiel, Volker ^d,e   Drexler, Jan Felix ^a,b,c   Müller, Marcel Alexander ^a,b,c   Drosten, Christian ^a,b,c  

^a BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^b German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f Noctalis   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^j Group Morcegos de Galicia   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SARS7A PROTEIN, SARS VIRUS; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; BAT; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85054772697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33487-8     Document Type: Article

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